BA (Hons) Writing and English Literature
Bachelor's degree
In Cambridge
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Cambridge
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
September
Develop your creative and professional writing skills while learning how English literature has shaped, and been shaped by, society. Prepare for work in many creative areas, including fiction writing, journalism, arts criticism and publishing.
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About this course
Our BA (Hons) Writing and English Literature will help you develop many skills for your future career, including literacy, communication, creativity, self-reliance and teamwork.
Many of our graduates have found success in roles such as journalism, teaching, writing, television, radio, the music industry, gallery work and arts administration.
Our work-based modules will give you a chance to get crucial experience in the field that you hope to work in, and our links to local professional bodies - including Cambridge University Press, Windhorse Publishing and Writers’ Centre Norwich – can help you find a placement.
120 UCAS Tariff points from a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent), including grade C in English Language or English Literature.
3 GCSEs at grade C, or grade 4, or above.
If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 7.0 ( Academic level), or equivalent English Language qualification, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University.
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Subjects
- English Language
- English Conversation
- English
- Writing
- English Literature
- Literature
- History of English Literature
- Imaginative Writing
- Writing to Entertain
- Criticism for Writers
Course programme
- A History of English Literature, from the present to 1789
- Introduction to Imaginative Writing: Prose Fiction
- Reading Literature and Theory
- Writing to Entertain, Inform and Persuade
- Introduction to Imaginative Writing: Poetry and Plays
- Language and Criticism for Writers
- A History of English Literature from Chaucer to Equiano
- Fundamentals of Publishing
- Writing Short Fiction
- Romantic Conflicts
- Writing for the Stage
- Victorian Literature and Culture
- Postcolonial Writing
- Screenwriting: The Feature Film
- Myth and Medievalism
- Writing World War One: Trauma, Memory, Resistance
- Modernism and the City
- News and Feature Writing
- Black British Writing
- The European Novel: Desire and Transgression
- Writing Historical Fiction
- Dialogue and Debate: More to Milton
- The History of the Book
- Major Project
- Writing Poetry
- Contemporary Fiction
- Scriptwriting: Multi Platform Storytelling
- Modern Science Fiction
- World Literature
- Special Topic 2
- Renaissance Magic
- Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontës
- Working in English and Media
- Film Journalism
- Writing Speculative Fiction
- Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- Literature and Exile: Displacement, Identity, Self
- Theorising Children's Literature
- Romantic Idealism
- Publishing in Practice
- Anglia Language Programme
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BA (Hons) Writing and English Literature